Plumeria inaguensis Britton

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Apocynaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Plumeria inaguensis Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - A glabrous tree, 5 m. high or less. Leaves obovate, rather thin, the blade 6-10 cm. long, 46 cm. wide, emarginate or rounded at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, dark green and shining above, bright green and dull beneath, the numerous veins diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 80, the midrib impressed on the upper surface, elevated beneath; petioles stout, 1-2 cm. long; peduncle stout, 4-10 cm. long; cyme compound, 8 cm. broad or less, densely many-flowered; pedicels slender, 8-12 mm. long; calyx short campanulate, slightly 5-lobed, the lobes broad, rounded; corolla white, its tube slender, about 1 cm. long, its 5 lobes narrowly obovate, rounded or slightly emarginate, somewhat longer than the tube; stamens about one-third the length of the corolla-tube; follicles linear, terete, 9 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands, Fortune Island and the Inaguas. Endemic. Inagua Plumiera.

    Inagua Bahamas South America|